your first computer ......

[cygnusx1]

Mine was an Amstrad word processer ........... 9012 ?
I still have it

see just a floppy drive ........................ and I bought a game for this PC , Chess

 

[LiberatedChick]

We had a Commodore 64...no floppy drive, just tapes. My brother still has it and all the tapes of the games we used to play on it.

 

[WhirlwindMonk]

My first was a Pentium 144 MHz 128 Ram. It had a cd drive too. This was before I knew how to use a computer very well. Lets just say that fooling with options and editing files to see what happens tends to kill a computer.

My parents' first, however, I believe was something like a Comodore 32.

 

[Qyöt27]

I don't know what my mom originally had; she got it through a business correspondence course. The only things I know about it are that it had no hard drive, used 5¼" floppies (we later added a 3½"), and ran on DOS. It probably had less than a meg of RAM, too. I didn't use it very often, though, and generally only used the Word Processing and Golf programs.

If you're talking extensive use, though, we got a Pentium 133 (I think it's a 133) in 1995. The thing's still alive, too. I had it in my room for a while but when I got my grandfather's emachines it was moved to my sisters' room. They mainly use it as a word processor.

 

[Quantos]

First computer ....

Vic 20 (No floppy, but Audio Tape Deck) for storage.

and a TV for the monitor.


(or you could say my Atari 2600 with the programing cartrage )

 

[fuzzyh]

Apple IIc it had games and a word processor. I used it in 1990 or so.

 

[MacKennon]

My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 that was giving to me by my parents for a Christmas present. Computers have come a long way since.

 

[troglodyte]

*shudder* i don't think i could go back to those days...
a) their graphics would be [i can't say this...]
b) I don't think i could surf the internet well on one of those things...
c) MY FIRST COMPUTER HAD LESS HARD DRIVE SPACE THAN A DVD!... i think a cell phone can do more now...

 

[Quantos]

*shudder* i don't think i could go back to those days...
a) their graphics would be [i can't say this...]
b) I don't think i could surf the internet well on one of those things...
c) MY FIRST COMPUTER HAD LESS HARD DRIVE SPACE THAN A DVD!... i think a cell phone can do more now...

Your first computer had a HD ? how young are you

 

[zoziw]

Chalk another one up for the Commodore Vic 20.

 

[WeakButHopeful]

Mine was a Radio Shack "coco" (Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer). See:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91
It had 16KB Memory (note the K) but I later upgraded to 64KB (I needed room to move around).
You used a TV for a monitor and it had 16 lines of 32 characters each (whether you needed all that text on screen at once or not) and that came in 9 lovely colors (including black).
You used a normal cassette tape player for program storage, but I later purchased a disk drive (5.25" drives, SINGLE sided, but if you used a hole punch you could flip them around and use the other side). I also bought a "line printer" but it didn't do text descenders so g's looked like 9's (is that a problem?).
It was the cat's meow! Quite a hot gaming box!
This was back in the early 80's. I wrote BASIC and Assembler programs on that machine.

 

[Lecarde]

Our familys first real computer was a 66mhz w/ 8MB ram. We had other stuff before that, but thats the one I remember best.

 

[cwdlmdd]

My was a Radio Shack TRS-80, But I have worked around them for a while. Mostly with a company called Johnsons Control, that made computers that were used to control buildings HVAC and Security systems.

 

[simplicity]

I also had a VIC 20. No harddrive and with 3.5 KB of RAM. I also had a 300 to 600 baud modem for it. I no longer have the machine. But emulators for the VIC20/C64/C128 are all available online along with nearly all the games produced for these systems.

 

[Leesy]

our first computer was a 200mhz it was a beast in its time now it sits in parts in the spare room and some parts are in other puters in random places around the house

 

[KristianJ]

The family's first comp is gathering dust in the corner of our lounge room. It was an Acer 486, 16MB RAM, 400MB hard drive, 2x CD-ROM, Windows for Workgroups...I remember I caused my mum a great deal of worry when I accidentally deleted the desktop link to File Manager and she thought I'd deleted File Manager itself

 

[micro]

My first was a packard bell 486 32mb ram 2mb video card with cd rom.
2nd was a intel board with a 300mhz socket 7 amd k-6. 64mb ram and 16 mb video card.

On my second pc, it could handle command and conqure tiberian sun. I havent tried it since then.

 

[tweaker]

I love this game!

My first computer was an Atari 600XL (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=27). Tape cassette storage, TV for a monitor, and my bought applications were all cartridges. I remember writing basic programs on it and they look forver to save to tape. It came with 16K of RAM, I had to get 32K expansion module just to use my word processor.

One day a friend of mine brought over his floppy drive and a bunch of cool new games. It was so awesome, I couldn't believe how fast they loaded, or how good they looked.

 

[Kripost]

Mine was an Apple II, sometime in the '80s. At that time I was pretty impressed by SAM, a text-to-speech synthesiser. Graphics was monochrome green against black, and there was no winchester drive too, just large floppy disks.

 

[chritophera]

My dear old MacIntosh....still have it to this day.
What a peice of junk...can you spell BOAT ANCHOR?